{"id":5580,"date":"2025-09-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/jeff-tweedy-goes-long-with-the-warm-and-generous-twilight-override\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:00:00","slug":"jeff-tweedy-goes-long-with-the-warm-and-generous-twilight-override","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/jeff-tweedy-goes-long-with-the-warm-and-generous-twilight-override\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Tweedy Goes Long With the Warm and Generous \u2018Twilight Override\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/81yNPMLaKWL._UF10001000_QL80_-e1758816653466.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"The cover of Jeff Tweedy's new album, 'Twilight Override.'\"><\/figure>\n<p>Though he began releasing music in the early \u201990s, Jeff Tweedy has been a steady, calming force for aging indie fans for the past 20 years. After kicking a painkiller addiction and seemingly moving past the anxiety that fueled early Wilco classics such as <em>Summerteeth <\/em>and <em>Yankee Hotel Foxtrot<\/em>, Tweedy has mainly explored warm, genial sounds on 13 albums attributed to Wilco, the five under his own name and others (including <em>Sukierae <\/em>which is simply attributed to Tweedy). It\u2019s as if Bob Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1966 and then made records like <em>John Wesley Harding <\/em>and <em>Nashville Skyline <\/em>for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Tweedy has always been prolific, from early double album <em>Being There <\/em>(1996) to the 21-track <em>Cruel Country <\/em>(2022). A restless spirit is inherent in his body of work, which has been consistent, even if not reaching the same twitchy crescendos of genius that inform the early Wilco records. However, <em>Twilight Override<\/em>, Tweedy\u2019s latest LP, sets a new record for the musician in length: 30 tracks, spread over three discs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/sylvan-esso-new-song-spotify\/\">Sylvan Esso Unveil New Single, Cut Ties With Spotify<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/50-years-of-rocky-horror\/\">50 Years of Rocky Horror<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/melodys-echo-chamber-sees-stars\/\">Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber Sees \u2018Stars\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The album takes time to reveal its gifts. Following a listening session of the Clash\u2019s triple-LP <em>Sandinista! <\/em>with sons Spencer and Sammy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/25\/arts\/music\/jeff-tweedy-twilight-override.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tweedy felt inspired to create his own triple record.<\/a> At first, 30 tracks may feel overwhelming, an onslaught of mid-tempo jewels. But if you give <em>Twilight Override <\/em>the proper attention, it ranks with the best of Tweedy\u2019s post-<em>A Ghost Is Born <\/em>output.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as if the old Jeff Tweedy has completely vanished. Opening track \u201cOne Tiny Flower\u201d is minor key twitchiness that gives way to the toe-tapping \u201cCaught Up in the Past.\u201d Meanwhile, \u201cParking Lot\u201d sounds like Tweedy\u2019s spin on Minutemen\u2019s \u201cHistory Lesson, Pt. 2\u201d in its plaintive spoken-word delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Tweedy said <em>Twilight Override <\/em>is broken into three sections: past, present, and future, even though each doesn\u2019t strictly remain in their time period. It makes sense, as sons Sammy (synthesizer) and Spencer (drums) are part of the band that performs on <em>Twilight Override. <\/em>Now that his children are grown, Tweedy is likely more introspective, thinking not only of where they\u2019ve been but where they\u2019re going.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights spring from <em>Twilight Override<\/em>, changing with each listening session. The cheeky \u201cLou Reed Was My Babysitter\u201d may be the most rocking thing on the record, while the delicate \u201cToo Real\u201d reaches for the ghost of Alex Chilton for inspiration. Despite the variety of genres and influences Tweedy explores here, a positive warmth radiates from <em>Twilight Override, <\/em>a generous and genial light that envelops us for nearly two hours, keeping the evils of the world at bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though he began releasing music in the early \u201990s, Jeff Tweedy has been a steady, calming force for aging indie fans for the past 20 years. 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